Artificial: A Love Story

"In Artificial: A Love Story, New Yorker cartoonist Amy Kurzweil describes how she and her father, famed futurist, technologist and inventor Ray Kurzweil, harness the power of artificial intelligence to connect with the grandfather she never knew. Fred Kurzweil died in 1970. He was a talented conductor and pianist from Vienna who fled the Nazis just before Kristallnacht in 1938 to begin a new life in the United States. Through words and meticulously detailed pen and ink drawings, this smart and spiritual graphic memoir not only chronicles the process that Amy and Ray go through to create a chatbot version of their forebear (“Fred-bot”), but also asks big questions about how we memorialize the people we love and the relationship between technology and humanity."